For the international folk who might not know, "Cholmondeley" is pronounced "Chumly"
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I honestly can't tell if this is true or some British chaps having fun at our expense.
I'm leaning towards it being true solely because I know how Worcester is pronounced.
Ha, honest truth!
About 30 minutes away is the similarly-named Cholmondeston (Chum-stn).
These two places are in Cheshire. There's also the always confusing Wynbunbury (Winbry), and the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, Daresbury (Darsbry).
You have a city named after a venereal disease and it's pronounced Cum Stain? Get the fuck outta here!
It just pisses me off that people forced me to learn english grammar in school like it was a set of rules laid out to logically structure language when grammar classes should just have involved taking the class on a group crime trip through language city roughing up words and sticking em good with silent useless letters, switching out the endings of words with ones that clearly don’t fit, climbing up onto road signs over highways and causing chaos by painting over the old sign directions with new ones written in riddles and installing street parking signs everywhere that all contradict each other like the rules of grammar do.
The only way for citizens to live a relatively normal life in this city is to frantically try to keep up with memorizing the arbitrarily changing rules of their universe and just give up all hope in unifying things under a rational even vaguely consistent system.
That's not even the worst. The one that pisses my off is how "St Johns" is pronounced "Sinjin". Wtf it's not hard to pronounce in the first place, why the fuck is it said like that?!
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It's spelled "Worcestershire".
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The Brits saw the French silent letters and said "oi, hold me tea."
Of course it is...
As a kiwi, that does my head in...
It's worse even than the new orleans "naahlins" thing
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I'm from the UK and I didn't know that
If you're getting old like me, you might remember Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches. (And if you're not, definitely look them up!)
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It's the feminine version of "marquis" apparently. If anyone else was wondering what the fuck a marchioness was
You say that as if any of us know what a marquis is.
It's a member of the 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group of the same name of course! Notable members will include Laren, Torres, Chakotay, and even one of the Riker twins.
I stopped actually reading your post when I realized I just wanted to make the Star Trek joke but then I realized I was actually in fact reading the Star Trek joke.
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I think it's that thing on a movie theater
No, it's a tent you set up in field to hold wedding receptions under.
From Wikipedia:
A marquess (UK: /ˈmɑː(r)kwɪs/;[1] French: marquis [maʁki])[2][a] is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness or marquise. These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan.
In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, a marquess ranks below a duke and above an earl. A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness /ˌmɑːrʃəˈnɛs/.[3] The dignity, rank, or position of the title is a marquisate or marquessate.
I only know because of Final Fantasy Tactics.
So I know they're vampires already.
A ~~buick~~*
- Mercury
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Marquis? No, that's a set of large, lit-up letters. You're thinking of a Marshal.
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Cholmondeley can be treated with antibiotics, just tell your doctor if you feel a burning sensation.
You’re thinking oh chlamydia. She’s more like the plant organelle turning sunlight into sugar.
You're thinking of the chloroplast, this lady is the Marchioness of the stuff you use to knock people out.
That's chloroform, the woman in the picture is associated with a threadlike structure that holds a molecule of DNA.
You're thinking of a chromosome. The woman pictured is a popular fire-type starter pokemon.
No, that's Charmeleon. She's the marshmallow of separating chemicals for analysis in a moving phase.
No, that's chromatography. She's the March Hare-ess of when people work together in the spirit of friendship and community.
The talk show host pointed out that Cholmondeley is actually pronounced “Chumley” and made the bizarre pronunciation a running joke. “Now there have been rumors an affair between William and the Marching Band of Chicanery since 2019,” he said, mocking her title.
-Stephen Colbert trolls Prince William's alleged affair with Rose Hanbury
There's no Fookin' way in the King's English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
Can you imagine trying to act serious when you're in any way involved with the Marionette of Chumpmonkey?
Imagine having an affair but your mistress is the Marchmadness of Chumbucket.
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There's no Fookin' way in the King's English this is the real way to pronounce this!?!
Worcestershire. Pronounced wooster-sure. I do believe The King's English takes the piss whenever possible.
See also: Through......
Oooh! And Norfolk. That one is pronounced Nah-fuck, at least in Virginia, US. Not certain how the original town is said, I assume it's similar, but the accent may have drifted in the last 400 years or so since the new one was founded.
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Haha. It is clear you're not British or at least familiar with British pronunciations of some words and place names. Mispronounce "Leicester" or "Portsmouth" and you will bring down the entire wrath of England. These pronunciations are relic of Old English and pre-Modern Era English, or bastardised when the Norman-French came.
And who are we to complain when everyday English words are already bizarre? "Salmon" is meant to be pronounced "sa'muhn". It's a relic of Norman-French. "gh" in some words are silent like "bought" and "nought". And sometimes "ou" is pronounced as "aú" like in "bough". Why are these letters there when they are silent?! The latter words are descendant of Old English.
These huge variations in pronounciations is what makes many non-native English speakers confused and struggling.
Mispronounce “Leicester” or “Portsmouth” and you will bring down the entire wrath of England
Joke's on them, I have no tea, spices, land, archaeological relics or cheap labor to be plundered!
These huge variations in pronounciations is what makes many non-native English speakers confused and struggling.
The way the words are written and their actual phonetic sound being absurdly different (plus vowels completely changing their sound "at random") doesn't help either. Same applies to french and their dumb mute final letters and accents in the wrong places. "Tróis" = "trrru aaaahhh"
French is what happens when a drunk Galician and a Roman-Italian try to teach a Viking how to speak Latin.
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Isnt it weird how we pronounce 'salmon' as 'salmon' but we pronounce 'salmonella' as 'salmonella'?
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It's weird how posh people all have the same face. And it's weird how they dress in that way. And it's weird that they own all the land and money. Weird weird weird.
She is rockin a pretty sweet britfro though
I dunno, if she pursed her lips together any tighter she could use them to cut sheet metal.
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Excuse me, Benedict Cumberbatch, will you pass the worcheshire sauce?
Hey, don't make fun of Bandersnatch Cumberbund; he's my favorite wizard.
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HOW IS THIS STILL A THING IN 2024
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